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Re: Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire - TV Adaption)

Ohhh, so that's who Mark Gatiss is playing. When news broke that he was cast, no one could seem to figure out his role. I think people thought that maybe he would play Doran Martell, or maybe Mace Tyrell.

Re: Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire - TV Adaption)

After tonight's episode Petyr Baelish must now be renamed Big Finger.
Also, watch this be the ONLY time they mention Oberyn's daughters.
Cersei got across surprisingly well this episode.
And this is the first time I have actually like Dany. When she was going off on how people shouldnt follow her on her name alone I was like: ''Yeeessss, that's right! That's why I couldnt stand you!
And what does Jojen's burning hand mean? Is he gonna die burned?

Re: Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire - TV Adaption)

Do the writers even refer to the books at all? Cersei and Margaery plotting together?...Alayne is Petyr's niece, not bastard?...they sail to the Vale but still have to pass through the Bloody Gate?...Beric Dondarrion and Thoros of Myr on Arya's hitlist now?...wut?

Like, nothing happened in this episode honestly. I loved Jojen's scene with Gore Burman, Hound and Arya were good as usual, nice to see Lysa back. But holy shit I'm so annoyed with this Cersei. And the fight scenes at Craster's were pretty terrible...lol

Do the writers even refer to the books at all? Cersei and Margaery plotting together?...Alayne is Petyr's niece, not bastard?...they sail to the Vale but still have to pass through the Bloody Gate?...Beric Dondarrion and Thoros of Myr on Arya's hitlist now?...wut?

Like, nothing happened in this episode honestly. I loved Jojen's scene with Gore Burman, Hound and Arya were good as usual, nice to see Lysa back. But holy shit I'm so annoyed with this Cersei. And the fight scenes at Craster's were pretty terrible...lol

Re: Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire - TV Adaption)

Originally Posted by danzouismadara

It's totally normal for them to just pick out what they want from the story, and then screw rest of it. Not surprising, but I still liked the episode.

That's kind of crude, but there are parts of the story that are just adapted poorly. What's the point to saying Sansa is posing as Littlefinger's niece instead of his bastard daughter? It's not a big deal, but I just scratch my head at it. Same with the Bloody Gate thing, something they skipped over in the first season when Cat traveled the road there. Maybe because they cut out Blackfish dunno.

Beric and Thoros being on Arya's death prayer is a consequence of the disservice they did to the story last season. Just weird.

Re: Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire - TV Adaption)

This episode was almost entirely: Underwhelming.

Wow. Like almost nothing interesting happened in this episode. I don't understand why they made the whole Craster's Keep plot if they didn't intend to do something more interesting with it. Though I guess a consequence of it was being able to show the Other scene last episode... The whole plot just felt awkward to me. If anything its main purpose was dragging out the plot (mostly make something happen in Bran's storyline), and enforce Jon's leadership status.

But this episode was so full of cringeworthy moments. I couldn't believe what I was seeing when Cersei went all coop mode with Margaery, WTF was that? In the episode GRRM wrote (ep 2) he even went out of his way to make Cersei be in character and basically spit at Margaery's gesture towards the city's poorest. Now they're BFFs three episodes later? WTF. Also I don't know what that Hodor killing scene was, besides being cool to watch. That's pretty destructive for Hodor's mentality. Was super cool to see Bran use his powers like that though, lol. Other changes like the Bloody Gate and Sansa being LF's niece are irrelevant I guess. The former being simply to be able to show off some scenery. No one should care that much about that detail IMO.

Re: Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire - TV Adaption)

Originally Posted by xi0

But why show off the Bloody Gate now? lol

I mean, these are minor things, but what's the point of changing them?

Show off factor I guess. They wanted to show off how impressive the Vale is I guess. There's no difference between doing it now and later is it? That being said I found the bloody gate extremely underwhelming. The Vale doesn't look like that at all in my mind. The Gate is supposed to be a "castle impossible to breach due to the terrain", the gate was more like a.... heavily fortified gate....

Re: Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire - TV Adaption)

Originally Posted by xi0

Like, nothing happened in this episode honestly. I loved Jojen's scene with Gore Burman, Hound and Arya were good as usual, nice to see Lysa back. But holy shit I'm so annoyed with this Cersei. And the fight scenes at Craster's were pretty terrible...lol

Re: Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire - TV Adaption)

Originally Posted by 3c

Show off factor I guess. They wanted to show off how impressive the Vale is I guess. There's no difference between doing it now and later is it? That being said I found the bloody gate extremely underwhelming. The Vale doesn't look like that at all in my mind. The Gate is supposed to be a "castle impossible to breach due to the terrain", the gate was more like a.... heavily fortified gate....

Sure, but it seemed so random. Especially since you're not going to be anywhere close to the Bloody Gate if you travel to the Vale via boat.